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B.C's auditor general to review government's response to 2021 Lytton wildfire
LYTTON, B.C. — British Columbia's auditor general says his office is doing a review of the province's response to the 2021 wildfire that devastated the community of Lytton, B.C. Michael Pickup says in a video statement that the report will focus on the B.C. government's roles and responsibilities for disaster recovery, its support for Lytton, including funding, challenges that came with rebuilding and how the province can improve. On June 30, 2021, just one day after Lytton hit a Canadian temper
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Fire destroys community fridge in Centretown
A fire Wednesday morning has destroyed a community fridge in Ottawa's Centretown neighbourhood.Ottawa Fire Services spokesperson Nick DeFazio said the call about a fire at 415 MacLaren St. came in shortly after 7:15 a.m. He said the investigation has now been turned over to police.Susan Palmai, a volunteer and member of the Centretown Churches Social Action Committee who helps run the community fridge, said she was visiting the MacLaren Street site in the morning when she saw police and firefigh
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Man dead after stabbing inside Brampton apartment, police say
A man is dead after an early morning stabbing inside a Brampton apartment building on Wednesday, Peel police say.Police say the stabbing took place just after 8:30 a.m. at a low-rise building on Baycliffe Crescent. Officers arrived to find the victim on the second floor, Const. Nikhil Chakravarthy said.Police haven't identified the victim and say they are working to find out whether the man was a resident of the apartment building. Chakravarthy says there is a single male suspect who may have kn
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Hate-crime probe: Vancouver woman arrested over speech that praised Hamas attack
VANCOUVER — Police say a 44-year-old woman has been arrested in a hate-crime investigation over a speech in Vancouver that praised the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel. A statement from the Vancouver Police Department says the woman "referred to a number of terrorist organizations as heroes." It says a criminal investigation is underway to determine if her comments violated hate-crime laws. The speech outside the Vancouver Art Gallery on Friday drew condemnation from Premier David Eby, Vancouver
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Blair says he couldn't sell Canadians, cabinet on 'magical threshold' of NATO target
OTTAWA — Defence Minister Bill Blair says it's hard to convince cabinet and Canadians that meeting the NATO spending target is a worthy goal, because "nobody knows what that means." Instead, he said Wednesday, he's tried to argue that Canada must do more to defend itself — and that will require more money. All NATO allies have agreed to spend at least two per cent of GDP on defence. Canada's defence spending amounted to 1.33 per cent in 2023, according to the alliance's estimates. Speaking at a
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Human-rights advocates pan budget plan to detain immigrants in federal prisons
OTTAWA — Human-rights groups are urging Ottawa to reverse course on plans to allow immigrant detention in federal prisons, saying vulnerable people could be exposed to unreasonably harsh conditions. Ottawa can detain foreigners without charge when they can't be identified or when it is suspected they won't show up to hearings to determine whether they can stay in Canada. Provinces have refused to allow Ottawa to house such people in jails, and the federal government runs just three centres that
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Ross River, Yukon, man sentenced to 9.5 years for manslaughter
A judge sentenced on Tuesday the man who killed a Kaska woman in Ross River, Yukon, to 9.5 years in prison.With credit for time already served, Phillip Atkinson will be in prison for just over four more years. Last fall, Atkinson pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2019 death of Mary Ann Ollie, described by her family as kind, gentle and community-minded. Atkinson, 67, had previously faced one count of first degree murder, a charge that was first laid against him in 2020. It took the RCMP 13 m
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